Front axle of rear-motored automobiles



NOV. 12, 1940. M KLAVIK 2,221,195

FRONT AXLE OF REAR-MOTORED AUTOMOBILES Filedikug. 29, 1959 Patented Nov. 12, 1940 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

FRONT AXLE OF REAR-MOTORED AUTOMOBILES Miles Klavik, Prague-Smichov, @zechoslovakla Application August 29, @359, Serial N: 292,519 in Czechoslovakia August 29, 1938 2 (Claims, ((131, 280-1112) In rear-motored automobiles, the front axle various ways without departing from the scope of with the steering road wheels is generally mountthe invention. ed on the front end of the tubular chassis mem- I claim: her. This front axle is usually in the form of In a motor vehicle, a central tubular chassis 5 two superposed transverse springs or two floating the vehicle, a tubular bearing member fixedly 5 half-axles, each of which forms a parallelogram secured to the front end of said tubular chassis system of oscillating levers. These members, m m e he fr nt p rt f a d e r n m m r whether transverse springs or oscillating levers, being Positioned W its axis at an que an e ar unt d on a suitably tr t t or to the horizontal axis of said tubular chasslsso l0 forged body secured to the front end of the tubuthat the outermost End Of the bearing member is l h i mb arl'amged in a higher plane than said tubular According to the invention, the body on which ChaFSiS h a y carrying nsverse the transverse springs or oscillating levers are Sprlhgs, d dy being rotatably mounted on mounted is rotatably secured to the front end of the obliquely PQ d front p Of d bearing the tubular chassis member so that the axis of member Said sprmgs the axle for the 15 rotation of said body lies approximately in the from Wheels Bald vehwle- 881d body havin an longitudinal axis of the vehicle or is inclined ob- Wall closmg'the p n fr nt end of said bearliquelyupward somewhat towards the direction member, an member fixedly Secured of traveL in said tubular chassis member near the rear end By this means, a better application of the the ew Tod extending length- 20 wheels on this axle on the road is secured, be- We wlthm theFntEnOI' of said Pubular bearing cause the weight of the front part of the vehicle member and Sam Fubular chasm h and is distributed quite uniformly on both wheels, refixedly, atfta'ched wlth its ends sald end Wall gardless of unevennesses of the road, and in addiand Sam msert member espectlvelytion in the case of shocks only against one of the In a motor vehicle: central tubular chassis 25 wheels on the axle, the connection with the member extending hmmtally lengthwise t chassis member is flexible and the bearing memvehicle tubmar bearing member fixedly Secured ber it lf is practically unstressed to the front end of said tubular chassis member,

For limiting, the oscillations of the rotatable P fr 1 t of 5911a member being P body, torque spring devices are advantageously honed wltflh Its axis at an obhque angle to the 30 combined with the axle, f example a spring zontal axis of said tubular chassis so that the passing through the chassis member and secured outermost end of the bearing member is arranged between the rotatable body and an insertion inm higher Plane than said tubulali chassis serted in the bearing member in the vicinity of a-body carrying transverse spnngs, Said body its rearward end, so that the torsional forces can lbFmg rotatably mounted on the obliquely P 35 only act on the other end of the bearing member. front m said bearing member, 531d The mounting f a f ont axle according to the springs forming the axle for the front wheels of invention is shown diagrammatically in part said vehicle, one of said springs being attached m in t accompanying drawing. to the upper part of said body and the other 40 The body I which carries the transverse springs sprlhg t0 the lower Part said body said body 40 2 and 3, forming the'axle, is rotatably mounted havmg an Wall @1051118 the p n fr m? end on the sleeve 4 secured to the front end of the of said healing member. an insert member fixedly tubular chassis member 5. The axis of the sleeve secured 111 said tubular chassis member the about which the body I rotates, extends obliquely rear end of the Same, and tOrSiOn od xten upward somewhat towards the direction of travel. lengthwise Within the interior of Said tubular 45 Mounted in the body I is the front end of the torbearing member and d tu ular chassis memsion rod 6, the rear end of which 13 gripped in her and flxedlyoattached with its endsto said end .the insertion I mounted in the vicinity of the rear and Said insert member r p v ly. end of the bearing member I.

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